Tree can grow up to 30 meters high but usually smaller, trunk is straight, cylindrical and may sometimes have buttress roots, smooth bark, greenish-brown to grey in colour with soft - light wood properties.

[1] Leaves, simple, opposite arrangement, glabrous, leathery surface, petiole 3 - 15 mm.

Leaf-blade, elliptical to ovate in outline, size, 5 x 32 cm long and 1.7 x 17 cm wide, acuminate apex, cuneate at the base; lamina coriaceous, 8 - 14 pairs of lateral veins.

Creamy - yellow, fragrant flower, Fruits, grey - brown and usually fusiform shaped,[1] Occurs in the forest zones of Lower and Upper Guinea and southwards up to Mozambique.

[2] Latex used as an ingredient for arrow poison by the Guere people of Ivory Coast, latex extracts obtained from the species can be used to produce birdlime but useless as a rubber.